Mystery Of Death Valley

by The Marmot

Mystery of Death Valley

Death Valley is a desert situated in the southwestern United States of America. Located in the Mojave Desert, it features the lowest, driest, and hottest locations in North America.

Lying near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, the east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. There are many mysterious stories about Death Valley, and let's discover them.

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Death Valley

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Cactus is a species of flower that can grow on the extreme weather of Death Valley

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Eureka Sand Dunes

The Eureka Valley Sand Dunes are situated in the southern part of Eureka Valley, in northern Inyo County in eastern California, in the southwestern United States. Although covering an area of only 8 km�, the dunes rise approximately 680 feet above the surrounding valley floor, making them one of the highest dune fields in North America.

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Eureka Dunes

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View from within the Eureka Dunes, California, looking from the west

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Zabriskie Point

Zabriskie Point is a part of Amargosa Range and is located in Death Valley National Park in the United States noted for its erosional landscape. It includes sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago.

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Zabriskie Point

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Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

In Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, wood was harvested locally, packed within the kilns and burned into charcoal, to be used to smelt gold from ore in a processing plant in the desert. 30ft high and 25ft in diameter, Wildrose Charcoal Kilns these are probably the best preserved charcoal kilns in the United States.

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Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

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Saline Valley

Saline Valley is a large, deep, and arid valley in the northern Mojave Desert of California. Most of it became a part of Death Valley National Park when the park expanded in 1994. It features a number of hot springs in the northeast corner of the valley. The water temperature at the source of these springs averages at 107 �F (42 �C).

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Saline Valley

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Arch

Arch is famous scenery of Death Valley with lots of worn mountains and valleys, and it becomes the mystery of Death Valley for visitors.

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Arch, Death Valley

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Related links:

1. California and the Nearby National Parks

2.Natural Sights of California

3. Life's Easy at Death Valley's Furnace Creek Inn

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